Magnetic properties of the rare-earth diborodicarbides (RB2C2)

The magnetic susceptibility of RB₂C₂ has been measured in the temperature range of 3–300 K. Curie-Weiss fits to the susceptibilities led to effective moments in agreement with those expected for R³⁺ ions. The RB₂C₂ (R = Ce, Nd, Sm, Gd, Tb, Er, and Tm) compounds are antiferromagnetic. Metamagnetic transitions at low fields were observed for CeB₂C₂ and TbB₂C₂. The compounds, DyB₂C₂ and HoB₂C₂, are ferromagnets with complex magnetic structures. Praseodymium borocarbide becomes a Van Vleck paramagnet at low temperature. The magnetic ordering temperatures of these compounds are discussed in terms of their crystal structure and the RKKY theory.     

Layer-by-layer electrodeposition of copper in the presence of o-phenanthroline, caused by a new type of hidden NDR oscillation with the effective electrode surface area as the key variable

Electrochemical deposition of copper (Cu) from aqueous acidic Cu2+ solutions with o-phenanthroline (o-phen) shows both potential and current oscillations, together with a (partially hidden) N-shaped negative differential resistance (N-NDR), indicating that the oscillations are classified into hidden N-NDR (or HN-NDR) oscillations. The color and the surface morphology of Cu deposits oscillate in synchronization with the potential and current oscillations. Microscopic inspection has shown that dense round Cu leaflets, which look gray, grow in the positive side of the potential oscillation or in the high-current state of the current oscillation, whereas thin Cu leaflets, which look black, grow in the opposite-side stages of the potential and current oscillations, thus finally resulting in a layered Cu deposit with the layer thickness of about 5 microm. The appearance of the NDR is explained to be due to adsorption of the reduced form of a [Cu(II)(o-phen)2]2+ complex, which suppresses the Cu electrodeposition. The increase in the effective electrode surface area by growth of thin Cu leaflets, on the other hand, causes a current increase that can hide the NDR. This NDR-hiding mechanism is of a new type and the present oscillation is regarded as a new-type of HN-NDR oscillator.     

Effect of surfactant counterion and organic modifier on the properties of surfactant vesicles in electrokinetic chromatography

Counterion and organic modifier are two parameters in EKC that can be varied in order to obtain improved solubility, selectivity, and efficiency. The effect of changing surfactant counterion and/or organic modifier on the chromatographic and electrophoretic properties of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB)/sodium octyl sulfate (SOS) vesicles is examined in EKC. The vesicles are prepared in a 1:3.66 cationic/ anionic mole ratio for a total surfactant concentration of 69 mM. The cationic CTAB is replaced by cetyltrimethylammonium chloride (CTAC) and the first use of CTAC/SOS vesicles is reported. The mean diameter of the CTAC/SOS vesicles is 96 nm while that of the CTAB/SOS vesicles is 85 nm. A class I modifier (2-amino-1-butanol) and a class II modifier (acetonitrile) have similar effects on the EOF, elution range, methylene selectivity, and the efficiency of the CTAB/SOS vesicles and the CTAC/SOS vesicles. Upon addition of 10% ACN, there is roughly a 10-fold increase in the efficiency of heptanophenone, a model hydrophobic compound, compared to the efficiency using unmodified vesicles. Linear free energy relationship (LFER) analysis using the Abraham solvation model is employed to characterize solute-vesicle interactions. The results suggest that organic modifier-vesicle interactions depend somewhat on the counterion.     

Exact analysis of ESR shift in the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain

A systematic perturbation theory is developed for the ESR shift and is applied to the spin-1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnetic chain with a general anisotropic exchange interaction. Using the Bethe ansatz technique, the resonance shift is obtained exactly for the whole range of temperature and magnetic field in the first order of the anisotropy. The obtained g shift strongly depends on magnetic fields at low temperature, showing a significant deviation from the previous classical result.     

Transport coefficients of a gluon plasma

Transport coefficients of gluon plasma are calculated for an SU(3) pure gauge model by lattice QCD simulations on 16(3) x 8 and 24(3) x 8 lattices. Simulations are carried out at slightly above the deconfinement transition temperature T(c), where a new state of matter is currently being pursued in BNL RHIC experiments. Our results show that the ratio of the shear viscosity to the entropy is less than one and the bulk viscosity is consistent with zero in the region 1.4 < or = T/T(c) < or = 1.8.     

Optical phase shifting with acousto-optic devices

A novel optical phase-shifting method based on a well-known acousto-optic interaction is proposed. By using a pair of acousto-optic modulators (AOMs) and properly aligning them, we construct an optical phase shifter that can directly control the phase of a collimated beam. The proposed phase shifter is insensitive to the polarization of the incident beam when polarization-insensitive AOMs are used, and no calibration is necessary. The proposed approach is confirmed with experimental results.     

Resolving the discrepancy of 135 MeV pd elastic scattering cross sections and relativistic effects

Three precise measurements for elastic pd scattering at 135 MeV/A have been performed with the three different experimental setups. The cross sections are described well by the theoretical predictions based on modern nucleon-nucleon forces combined with three-nucleon forces. Relativistic Faddeev calculations show that relativistic effects are restricted to backward angles. This result supports the two measurements recently reported by RIKEN and contradicts the KVI data.     

Behavior of the Bergman kernel at infinity

We give a precise decay rate of the Bergman kernel and metric at infinity on model domains, characterized in terms of certain convex polyhedron.Supported by JSPS.     

Cavity QED with quantized center of mass motion

We investigate the quantum fluctuations of a single atom in a weakly driven cavity, where the center of mass motion of the atom is quantized in one dimension. We present analytic results for the second order intensity correlation function g((2))(tau) and the intensity-field correlation function h(theta)(tau), for transmitted light in the weak driving field limit. We find that the coupling of the center of mass motion to the intracavity field mode can be deleterious to nonclassical effects in photon statistics and field-intensity correlations, and compare the use of trapped atoms in a cavity to atomic beams.